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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Here in the good 'ol US of A, pretty much everything gets its own holiday. Got a toothache? February 9th is your day! Like air? So do I! Let's celebrate together on November 11th, National Air Day! And if anybody needs me on September 16th, I'll be enjoying National Stay Away From Seattle Day by, uh, continuing to live in Florida.

So anyway, today is National Pink Day, and by gosh, we're going to celebrate it - both the color *and* the singer. Why, you ask? Same reason we climb mountains: too much free time and we're crazy. DUH.

Hit it!

I think I just lost my talentI don't know where it went.Good thing I have this necklaceAnd lots of pink fondant:

I understand that "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" is a good earworm cure. And the dress fits the theme. I wonder if it works for eyeworms as well -- these cakes bring the idea of worms firmly to the forefront of my mind.

*sigh* I haven't been homesick in the 3 years since i moved away, but now I really wish I was sitting at the Panera's next to the main gate at Rollins. Have they EVER fixed up that awful "art deco" 7-11? (I miss 7-11. Don't have them here.)

I have almost decided it's less risky to just let the shower guests assemble the cake themselves at the event, rather than gamble my money on a baker's mad skills. I mean, who doesn't enjoy a craft, right?

wv: undun: you can put a ribbon around that cake, but i bet it doesn't come undun at the moment you want it to.

My 8-year-old daughter is delighted with the concept of a National Pink Day because she loves pink so much she could have started it. So I know what color I'LL be surrounded by today. Thanks, awfully.

(Oh, and the idea of a Stay Away From Seattle Day cracks me up. I'm guessing Portlnd, Or., started it because they sort of have a little brother-resentful feeling toward Seattle. I don't think Seattle really cares, but Portland can't STAND Seattle. It's hilarious.)

JJ has an excellent idea. If I had a cake to construct at a shower (any shower) it might not feel like I was trapped in the land where time stopped.How can we start this new and very useful tradition??

SaraCVT, Portland may love to poke fun Seattle every chance it gets, but it's very much a good-natured family kind of rivalry; rather than the kind that both Seattle and Portland have with California...which really is just flat out condescension and disdain (especially on Oregon's part since they share the border).

Umm, if you say so.... I live in Vancouver, Washington, just across the Columbia from Portland and I get the Oregonian newspaper daily, and "poking gentle fun" is definitely NOT the sense I get from the Letters To The Editor, particularly in the recent flap when it was discovered that Seattle had more police per capita than Portland. But maybe I'm wrong--my daughters have a love/hate relationship, too.

I suspect that "Stay Away from Seattle Day" originated with Lesser Seattle, a loose-knit kinda-sorta organization dedicated to reinforcing Seattle's rep as a dull, wet, dismal place that no one would ever, ever, ever want to move to.

I hate the color pink and It's a Small World! I had to ride it 6 times during a bad thunderstorm when I was 9 as my grandmother didn't want to leave the building---6 times through withOUT getting out of the boat!!

(singing loudly and with as much talent as these wreckerators) BUT SO WHAT CAUSE I'M A ROCK STAR

Yeah, that one legged bear is mine! I glued him on the board wrong, and realized too late he only had one leg. That's why he's such a hideous colour combo, hoped some little girl with more love of pink than sense would beg for him. We all had a good laugh when I realized he was an amputee, glad some others think he's hilarious(ly bad) too.

Every decorator pumps out bad ones, especially at places that hire decorators who've never touched a spatula and expect to train them in to some semblance of skill. I usually make decent-to-good ones at least.

So I read the wreckerator lyrics to the tune of "Sober" until it got to the na-na part, where I substituted melancholy u-huh-uh's to make the tune fit. Then I got to the chorus and couldn't believe I missed that it was "So What."

A neat trick I learned from a music teacher in high school: If you sing the entire song in your head, the endless loop of the song will disappear from your head.

Naw, not supposed to be Lotso. I usually do a monkey shaped CCC when I do a CCC animal (don't ask me why people are so into monkeys or CCCs) and was experimenting with a different more generic shaped CCC that I could make into a bear or other humanoid-ish fuzzy creatures, and instead of making a 4th leg I wasn't paying attention to where the body was or how huge it was and I actually hadn't noticed it first, someone else did, that I was missing a leg. But too late.

All these cakes suffer from icingus droopus. Perhaps they should not use Pepto-Bismal as frosting.#4 -we definitely need bigger bows#5 -we agree with Dread Pirate; it needs purple & green sprinkles and gold beads. Shall we meet in the bunker.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry because now that song is stuck in my head..lmao help me!!! Those cakes all look pepto pink to me and would probably give any tummy an ache from all the sugar. Scary cakes and gahhh that song won't die!!

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